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Spain

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The European Court of Auditors (ECA) carries out three types of audits under EU Cohesion Policy: financial, compliance and performance audits. Each of them have different objectives and addresses different audit questions.The new legal framework 2014-2020 aspires to be a more results-oriented spending framework, where performance and results are the new key words.This highly practical two-day course covers all aspects of each stage of the performance audit process. It includes the unique feature of providing an insight into how the European Court of Auditors plan, prepare and implement their audit assignments, and it covers real audit case studies and experiences of the Court’s teams

How will it help you?After the presentation of each stage of performance audit, you will work on real life case studies in small working groups with the direct involvement and guidance of experts from the European Court of Auditors.

Does your organisation have qualified experts who are willing and able to design, manage and monitor evaluation activities? Will you be able to ensure high quality evaluation? Will evaluation results really provide evidence for decision-making and improve policies and programmes?

This three-day, highly practical course, will cover all essential aspects of the Cost Benefit Analysis (CBA) of 2014-2020, in line with the European Commission Guide on CBA, published in December 2014.

This course is a follow-up to the ‘CBA Why and How’ course and it explains in a very detailed and practical way how to successfully perform each element of a CBA, including the financial, economic, sen

Good governance and quality of public administrations is recognisably in the interests of the citizens and Europe’ Member States. It achieves maximum value from finite public funds and creates a public-private interface that increases employment and growth.